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The Undertaker
I once had a teacher
who was a survivalist.
He taught me a trick:
When the air is cold,
imagine a fire and be warm.
Cars hum-down the
nearby October midnight
freeway
and I sit here under
star-shielding yellow lamp
thinking about a woman
in the shadow of a street tree.
I am proud and alone,
never letting desire wrap
her cold long legs around me.
Puffs of smoke drift
from an ivy covered chimney
beyond the overpass.
Along its base, snarled
thistles growing in cement
crevices and
patches of crab-grass
among roots and rubble
remind me
of the living organism
beneath this asphalt scab
whose persistent weeds
are nipples
nursing the black lung sky.
Fog settles into my cloth
as I sit here under
a street lamp, doing
nothing,
vessels creeping by,
going somewhere
to a warm place
to sleep in a soft bed,
perhaps to hear another
heart beating rhythms
with their own,
and I am nothing
but a witness
alone, damp and awake.
Earthy magic fool
with clever tunes beyond notes,
what haunted belief
your dust houses,
time and space
dragging the moon
from eastern horizons,
rumbling quick changes
in tiny scenes.
Thinking about a woman
as the fire in mind loses credibility.
What ghost or hungry words
twist my dreams through
the broken neon night?
I am alone
listening to freeway sounds
now less frequent.
--Carlos Knoop
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McLelland proposal of May 12, 1997--at odds with reality
Analysis of GATT, NAFTA and the WTO and their part in erosion of democracy, environmental safeguards, labor protections--written by Ralph Nader and Lori Wallach.
Butterfly saved Luna: After living on Luna for two years, Julia Butterfly helped save the tree she loves.
The Battle of Seattle shut down--for now--WTO plans.
Millennium Madness: just as Leary and what's-his-name predicted
KZYX joins struggle to Save Pacifica
Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF--by the Global Exchange staff
"The Day I Met George W. Bush," a memoir by John Searcy--the Bush boys cruise 70s Odessa.
"Hole in Headwaters" gets reprieve--Judge grants injunction, sparing ancient redwoods--a report from North Coast Earth First!
Pre-Convention media coverage: distorts Democracy Movement's agenda, whitewashes paramilitary violence
Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the Elian Gonzalez saga: "Shipwreck on dry land"
"Nader, Buchanan and the Debates," by Jeff Cohen of FAIR
A commentary by Dylan Humphrey: on academic freedom and democracy
"Bringing home the roadkill should not be a crime," a commentary by Lynn Harrington
Americans seem to prefer the "security" of fascism over democracy, writes Carol Wolman
Termination of Treaties: A Presidential Decree is not enough
"Restoring freedom: What does it mean to be an American on this Fourth of July?" -- commentary by Dorothy M. Ehrlich -- reprinted from July 4, 2002 SF Chronicle
Inaugural poetry section: "The Undertaker," by Carlos Knoop
Two poems by Chris Byrne: "Branded" and "Retrograde"
Prayer for these signs of the times: a Rasta poem
"jersey st": a poem by michael platt
"Mutability," by William Wordsworth
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